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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
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                     2023 SENATE BILL 251
    April 20, 2023 - Introduced by Senators QUINN, HESSELBEIN, COWLES, JAMES and
         MARKLEIN, cosponsored by Representatives KURTZ, PENTERMAN, JACOBSON, C.
         ANDERSON, BARE, CONLEY, CONSIDINE, EDMING, GREEN, JOERS, NOVAK,
         O'CONNOR, OHNSTAD, ROZAR, SINICKI, SPIROS and STUBBS. Referred to
         Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs.
1   AN ACT to repeal 15.497 (2) (h); to renumber 15.497 (2) (b) to (g); to renumber
2        and amend 15.497 (2) (a); to amend 15.497 (2) (intro.); and to create 15.497
3        (2) (ag) (intro.), 15.497 (2) (am) and 15.497 (2) (ar) of the statutes; relating to:
4        members of the Council on Veterans Programs.
                      Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
          Under current law, the Council on Veterans Programs advises the Board of
    Veterans Affairs and Department of Veterans Affairs on solutions and policy
    alternatives relating to the problems of veterans. The council consists of numerous
    representatives of various veterans organizations who are appointed by those
    organizations for one-year terms.
          This bill adds the following members to the council, selected by the member's
    peers, to serve one-year terms:
          1. A veteran services coordinator who is employed at a Wisconsin technical
    college.
          2. A veteran services coordinator who is employed at a University of Wisconsin
    System institution.
          The bill also removes the following members from the council, due to the
    organizations they represent being inactive:
          1. A representative of the Navy Club of the U.S.A.
          2. A representative of the American Ex-prisoners of War.
          3. A representative of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc.
          4. A representative of the Catholic War Veterans of the U.S.A.
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         5. A representative of the Army and Navy Union of the United States of
     America.
         6. A representative of the U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II.
         7. A representative of the Blinded Veterans Association of Wisconsin.
     The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
         enact as follows:
 1        SECTION 1. 15.497 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
 2        15.497 (2) COUNCIL    ON VETERANS PROGRAMS.    (intro.) There is created in the
 3   department of veterans affairs a council on veterans programs consisting of all of the
 4   following representatives appointed for one-year terms by the organization that
 5   each member represents:
 6        SECTION 2. 15.497 (2) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 15.497 (2) (ag) 1. and
 7   amended to read:
 8        15.497 (2) (ag) 1. One representative each of the state departments of the
 9   American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
10   the Marine Corps League, the Navy Club of the U.S.A., the Veterans of World War II
11   (AMVETS), the American Ex-prisoners of War, the Vietnam Veterans Against the
12   War, Inc., the Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., the Catholic War Veterans of the
13   U.S.A., the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., the Polish Legion of American
14   Veterans, the National Association for Black Veterans, Inc., the Army and Navy
15   Union of the United States of America, the Wisconsin Association of Concerned
16   Veteran Organizations, the United Women Veterans, Inc., the U.S. Submarine
17   Veterans of World War II, the Wisconsin Vietnam Veterans, Inc., and the Military
18   Order of the Purple Heart.
19        SECTION 3. 15.497 (2) (ag) (intro.) of the statutes is created to read:
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 1         15.497 (2) (ag) (intro.) The following representatives appointed for one-year
 2   terms by the organization that each member represents:
 3         SECTION 4. 15.497 (2) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
 4         15.497 (2) (am) For a one-year term, a veteran services coordinator who is
 5   employed at a technical college in this state and who is popularly selected by other
 6   technical college veteran services coordinators in this state.
 7         SECTION 5. 15.497 (2) (ar) of the statutes is created to read:
 8         15.497 (2) (ar) For a one-year term, a veteran services coordinator who is
 9   employed at a University of Wisconsin System institution, as defined in s. 36.05 (9),
10   and who is popularly selected by other University of Wisconsin System institution
11   veteran services coordinators.
12         SECTION 6. 15.497 (2) (b) to (g) of the statutes are renumbered 15.497 (2) (ag)
13   2. to 7.
14         SECTION 7. 15.497 (2) (h) of the statutes is repealed.
15                                        (END)
Statutes affected: 
Bill Text: 15.497(2)(intro.), 15.497, 15.497(2)(h)
Text as Enrolled: 15.497(2)(ag)(intro.), 15.497, 15.497(2)(h)